Derval O’Rourke, Maria Walsh and Dr Pixie McKenna recall their experiences as teenagers

As they gear up for today’s conference especially for teenagers, Derval O’Rourke, Maria Walsh and Dr Pixie McKenna recall their experiences as teenagers to Ciara McDonnell.

IF A scent were to evoke the memories of my teenage years it would be a hybrid of Exclamation! perfume and pressed powder by Constance Carroll. The halls of the all-girls secondary school I attended was a milling, teeming mass of teenage girls boasting a heavy slick of Heather Shimmer lipstick and the smacking jaws of too much strawberry-flavoured Hubba Bubba.